Gêneros textuais e práticas sociais: A produção de um jogo didático

Abstract

This research aimed to develop a prototype of an innovator teaching materials for the teaching of Portuguese in the final years of elementary school. More specifically, it has been produced an educational game that sought to promote the activity of oral and written expression of public schools students, basing it, therefore, on social practices that cause verbal interaction opportunities between subjects. To encourage the elaboration was held theoretical research on the notions of discursive domain, discursive / textual genres and typologies, among others. Moreover, it applied a questionnaire to thirty teachers from public schools students, to seek to know the reality of working with genres in the classroom in order to better determine the points of contribution of the game. Thus it was designed an educational game composed of teams that cast lots of communication situations and carry out the tasks demanded by them. After the development of the dynamics and rules of the game, adequacy and viability tests were made: three teachers applied the game in six divisions of the past few years of elementary school. The application results showed the advantages of the game as well as points to be corrected and modified on the dynamics or rules of the prototype. It is concluded that the product developed by the research was able to develop speaking and writing activities in a dynamic and contextualized way by setting up as an important contribution to Portuguese-speaking elementary school teachers.